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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
Address1 | 740 15th Street NW |
Address2 | Suite 700 |
City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20005 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 71278-12
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6. House ID# 359980000
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2023 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date |
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Ashley Morehouse |
Date | 7/20/2023 6:17:28 PM |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code ENG
16. Specific lobbying issues
Urged the Biden Administration to engage in fossil-free diplomacy.
Supported the inclusion of a pro-environment and pro-energy justice FERC Chair and fifth FERC Commissioner.
Urged the Biden Administration to reject extreme cuts to landmark climate investments.
Opposed efforts to undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and include harmful permitting
reforms in legislation to raise the debt ceiling.
Urged the Biden Administration to increase adoption of and access to renewable energy facilities in environmental justice communities.
Supported the White House Office of Management and Budget Circular A-4 and draft guidance on EO 12866 meetings.
Urged the Bureau of Land Management to reform the federal oil and gas program.
Urged Members of Congress to oppose H.R. 1615 (Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act) and H.R. 1640 (Save Our Gas Stoves Act).
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Tiernan |
Sittenfeld |
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Sara |
Chieffo |
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Madeleine |
Foote |
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Matthew |
Davis |
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Darien |
Davis |
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Leah |
Donahey |
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America |
Fitzpatrick |
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Arturo |
Terrazas |
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David |
Shadburn |
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Sara |
Fontes |
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Kaila |
Hood |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code ENV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Urged the U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related agencies to fully fund clean air and climate programs at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Opposed efforts to create exclusions in or weaken CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980).
Supported the creation of the Inflation Reduction Acts Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
Supported EPAs Part 1 Chrysotile Asbestos rule.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Tiernan |
Sittenfeld |
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Sara |
Chieffo |
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Madeleine |
Foote |
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Matthew |
Davis |
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Darien |
Davis |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code CAW
16. Specific lobbying issues
Supported the Bureau of Land Managements (BLMs) Proposed Conservation and Landscape Health Rule.
Urged the Department of the Interior to adopt a strong and swift plastic phase out plan in national parks.
Urged EPA to reconsider Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
Urged EPA to strengthen Proposed Rule on commercial use of Ethylene Oxide.
Urged EPA to finalize a strong rule on methane emissions and pollution from oil and gas operations.
Urged Congress to vote NO on the veto override of H.J. Res 27 (Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Revised Definition of 'Waters of the United States'").
Urged EPA to close loopholes in the Coal Ash Legacy Rule.
Urged EPA to finalize strong Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
Urge EPA to finalize the strongest possible wastewater treatment standards for steam electric power plants.
Urge EPA to act promptly on addressing Regional Haze Round 2 State Implementation Plans.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Tiernan |
Sittenfeld |
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Sara |
Chieffo |
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Foote |
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Darien |
Davis |
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Shadburn |
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Kaila |
Hood |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code NAT
16. Specific lobbying issues
Called on Members of Congress to oppose S. 1281 and H.R. 2925, the so-called Mining Regulatory Clarity Act.
Oppose S.J. Res. 9, the CRA (Congressional Review Act) of the Biden rule on the Lesser Prairie Chicken.
Opposed H.R. 188 Proven Forest Management Act.
Opposed Congressional Review Act joint resolutions of disapproval, including H.J. Res. 29 (Lesser Prairie-Chicken), H.J. Res. 46 (Trump Critical Habitat Regulation), H.J. Res. 49 (Northern Long-eared Bat), H.R. 215 (California Salmon and Delta Smelt), H.R. 764 (Gray Wolf Delisting), H.R. 1245 (Wyoming Grizzly Bears) and H.R. 1419 (Montana Grizzly Bears).
Urged Members of Congress to oppose H.R. 3397 (To require the Director of the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw a rule of the Bureau of Land Management relating to conservation and landscape health).
Urged Members of Congress to support H.R. 195 calling for the creation of a National Biodiversity Strategy.
Urged Congress and the Biden Administration to protect Oak Flat.
Urged the Biden Administration for the U.S. to become a global leader on ocean climate action.
Urged the Biden Administration to progress on climate, conservation, and biodiversity in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Supported efforts in the FY 2024 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill to remediate impacts of border wall construction and militarization on communities and wildlife in the borderlands.
Urge Congress to pass a strong Farm Bill that maintains investments in climate-smart agriculture.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Interior - Dept of (DOI)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Sittenfeld |
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Madeleine |
Foote |
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Matthew |
Davis |
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Leah |
Donahey |
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America |
Fitzpatrick |
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Kaila |
Hood |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code GOV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Oppose H.R. 277, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2023 (REINS Act).
Called on Members of Congress to reject cuts to non-defense discretionary appropriations.
Urge Senate to confirm Biden judicial nominees.
Urge Senate to confirm Nancy Abudu to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Urge Senate to confirm Julie Rikelman to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Urge Senate to confirm Bradley Garcia to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Urge Senate to confirm Rachel Bloomekatz to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Urge Senate to confirm Dale Ho to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Urge Senate to reform or abolish Blue Slips for judicial nominees.
Urge Congress to investigate Supreme Court ethics concerns.
Support Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act.
Support Justice is BLIND Act.
Support Judicial Ethics and Anticorruption Act.
Oppose Congressional interference in District of Columbia local affairs through the appropriations process.
Support increased federal appropriations for state and local election offices.
Support Judiciary Act of 2023.
Support Protecting Our Democracy Act.
Urge Department of Education to incorporate voter registration opportunities into FAFSA process.
Support Ending Forced Arbitration of Race Discrimination Act of 2023.
Support Freedom to Vote Act.
Support John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Oppose H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act Act of 2023.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Education - Dept of, U.S. Customs & Border Protection
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Sara |
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Davis |
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Darien |
Davis |
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Arturo |
Terrazas |
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Sara |
Fontes |
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David |
Shadburn |
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Douglas |
Lindner |
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Leah |
Donahey |
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America |
Fitzpatrick |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code DOC
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support the Washington, DC Admission Act.
Oppose Congressional disapproval of District of Columbia local legislation.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Lindner |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code IMM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Urge Customs and Border Protection to limit detention of pregnant, postpartum, and/or nursing people.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. Customs & Border Protection
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
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Lindner |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TAX
16. Specific lobbying issues
Commented on IRS rulemaking for rules governing the 48e solar tax credit.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury - Dept of, Federal Reserve System
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Shadburn |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization
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CONVICTIONS DISCLOSURE
29. Have any of the lobbyists listed on this report been convicted in a Federal or State Court of an offense involving bribery,
extortion, embezzlement, an illegal kickback, tax evasion, fraud, a conflict of interest, making a false statement, perjury, or money laundering?
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